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Interviews & talks
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Bitcoin Magazine TV · BMTV
Bitcoin Privacy Breakthrough a Zcash Killer? | Misha Komarov
Misha Komarov joins BMTV to discuss Shielded Bitcoin, Bitcoin PIPEs, and the proposal for private transactions without a soft fork.
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Isabel Foxen Duke · Bitcoin Rails
PIPEs, Witness Encryption & the Future of Privacy on Bitcoin
Misha Komarov and Clara Shikhelman join Isabel Foxen Duke to discuss PIPEs, witness encryption, and privacy on Bitcoin.
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Laura Shin · Unchained Premium
Can This Bring Zcash-Style Privacy to Bitcoin Without a Fork?
Laura Shin interviews Misha Komarov about shielded Bitcoin, witness encryption, and privacy without a fork. The full episode requires an Unchained Premium subscription.
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Stephan Livera
Bitcoin PIPES v2 | Misha Komarov SLP776
Misha Komarov discusses witness encryption, Bitcoin covenants, and programmable vaults with Stephan Livera.
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Pete Rizzo · The Bitcoin Historian
Someone Just Made Bitcoin Private
Misha Komarov and Scott O'Dell join Pete Rizzo to explain the Shielded Bitcoin proposal and how private transfers would work.
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YouTube
Improving Bitcoin's Programmability via Witness Encryption | Michel Abdalla | Crypto @ UC Berkeley
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IACR · Eurocrypt 2026
Panem et Circenses — Challenges in Rome | Markus Schofnegger | Eurocrypt 2026
Markus Schofnegger presents cryptanalysis challenges for AADP witness encryption. The recording opens at the start of his talk in the Eurocrypt 2026 rump session.
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YouTube
Bitcoin PIPEs v2, Covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin via Witness Encryption | Bitcoin 2026
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YouTube
Increasing Bitcoin's Functionality Through Novel Cryptography | Misha Komarov | OPNEXT 2026
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blockspace.media
How to Add Covenants to Bitcoin Without Changing a Thing: PIPES v2 | Misha Komarov | OPNEXT '26
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YouTube
PIPEs V2 | Misha Komarov | bitcoin ++ | villain edition | Hoover Dam, Nevada | Apr 23–24 2026
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YouTube
ZK14 — Towards Practical Witness Encryption from Arithmetic Affine Determinant Programs | Lev Soukhanov
Podcasts
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Coverage
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Bitcoin++ Insider · Clara Shikhelman
Shielded Bitcoin & PIPEs: 12 Questions & Answers
Clara Shikhelman answers Bitcoin++ Insider's questions about Shielded Bitcoin and PIPEs, covering the proposed design, security assumptions, trade-offs, and open research questions.
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Bitcoin++ Insider
Private Bitcoin Payments — Last Week in Bitcoin (Sep 21 - 27)
Bitcoin++ Insider covers the Shielded Bitcoin proposal and how Bitcoin PIPEs v2 could support private payments without a consensus change.
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Bitcoin Magazine
[[alloc] init] Releases Shielded Bitcoin Proposal For Private Bitcoin Transactions
Shinobi examines Shielded Bitcoin, its privacy design, and the planned connection to Bitcoin PIPEs.
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CoinDesk
Bitcoin could soon get Zcash-style ‘shielded’ privacy without changing its rules
A look at the Shielded Bitcoin proposal, its Zcash-inspired design, and the remaining work on moving BTC into and out of the system.
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Galaxy Research
‘Shielded Bitcoin’ Paper Proposes Private BTC Transfers
Galaxy Research examines the Shielded Bitcoin design and the remaining work on connecting private transfers to BTC deposits and withdrawals.
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Cointelegraph
Researchers propose Zcash-style private Bitcoin transfers without a soft fork
Cointelegraph covers the Shielded Bitcoin proposal and independent reactions to its approach to privacy on Bitcoin.
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Blockspace
Cryptography researchers publish witness encryption scheme emulating covenants on Bitcoin
Blockspace reports on the Bitcoin PIPEs v2 white paper and its witness-encryption approach to covenants on Bitcoin.
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Blockworks
No forks given — Bitcoin DeFi without upgrades
Blockworks explores Bitcoin PIPEs and other approaches to Bitcoin programmability without protocol upgrades, with commentary from Misha Komarov.
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Bitcoin Optech: Bitcoin PIPEs v2
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Cleverse Ventures
Bitcoin PIPEs at BTCON BKK 2024
Cleverse Ventures highlights Scott Odell’s talk on covenants and ZKPs on Bitcoin without a soft fork.
